Our Old Main Website
2024 Due Explanation to Fans
Hi everyone and thanks for your support.
After quite a few complications happening between last summer and this one, over which we had very little control, we can now give our fans a well-deserved explanation for the disruptive changes in url, commonly known as address on the Internet, between our old main website and this new one we had built during the taking down of our hosting website which took over a year, together with all the others.
Our web domain there was thefirstconception.net which was redirected here when it was announced that Webs’ new owners were going to delete all customers’ websites for lack of ability to reallocate them at their servers even though we’d been told all websites would seamlessly be transferred and reallocated at their own servers which sadly did not happen.
We had very many regular visits from around the world. Sadly it was removed because its hosting website Webs – webs.com – was sold to another hosting company whose owners were not bothered with the more than five million customers who had websites hosted there (some of them, like us, for more than a decade paying a monthly fee) and lost them possibly due to high reallocation costs or mere incompetence, according to online reviews.
Our old main website was copied – mirrored – just in time after a committed web search for dedicated software and has now gone live but still undergoing some improvements with the domain name thefirstconception.uk as we’ve had our first domain thefirstconception.com redirected to Bandcamp from the beginning – our first online presence since 2008.
Our old main website on Webs at webs.com had been hosted there since 2009. An old but timeless for very pleasant template which was discontinued a long time ago but precisely what we had intended as a template for our website and planned to have one made before finding that hosting online company.
My advice for anyone planning to build a website is “do not trust online hosting companies, especially those you cannot speak face to face with their owners or programmers, or both. It is best to pay more for something you can trust. I was paying around five euros a month – to get rid of publicity – and now I’m paying thirty euros a month including three domains, their server allocation plus the website and premium service.
We lost all the photos and video thumbnails in the mirroring process but not the videos nor the links. Yet, I consider myself to be rather lucky because I was fortunate enough to find a few programmes online for mirroring websites, and was able to save our website. Millions of others were not so lucky for they lost everything on their websites at Webs.
It is very sad when people put endless hours which turn into days and weeks, even months, or years of effort into their websites – let alone maintenance – only to see that work taken down one day.
Anyway, our old main website is up and running. Even though a few features are no longer available for lack of back office, they do not stop the user from enjoying the links, which are still running irrespective of the blank thumbnails.
Rogerio Ferreira (TFC)
